re: Is this real? Louisiana PE standards changed

American PE:

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Human target games (e.g., dodgeball)

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Sam Hubbard was recruited by Ohio State after Urban Meyer saw him playing dodgeball in gym class. Sam Hubbard will be a first or second round pick in next years draft.

People that make these stupid rules are stupid.

Ideally this is not a bad thing. In theory it would mean kids learning fun lifetime fitness activities they would enloy enough to do on their own.

In practice it will mean walking around the track for 45 minutes 3 times a week.

bese rejects ban on dodgeball in schools

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The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education this week ultimately voted against a ban on dodgeball and other target sports.

One BESE member said a ban was an attempt to be sensitive about bullying, but people against the ban said kids enjoy dodgeball and a ban went too far.

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That's a pile of crap.

I broke my toe when I was in eighth grade playing dodgeball because fat arse Bill Thompson was just standing in one place while I was trying to haul arse and murder nerds. I ran my foot right into his heel and broke the middle toe. Fat people are always making things difficult.

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They may develop a negative connotation towards physical fitness

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Their parents did that to them. Not dodgeball.

Not saying it's my belief, just saying I see where they are coming from making the standards. And those are legit examplesthat were used in college.

It's more of a "lifetime health" goal now not a competition sport goal. They don't want kids to be deterred from being active due to negative outcomes in sports.

It's shitty, I know but that's the agenda.

It's obvious that some competitive sport at the youth level does inhibit activity.

What are common punishments for athletes in youth sports? Running? Push ups? Mainly something on par with those.

Take a group of kindergarteners and tell them they can run...odds are they're are running their legs off. Take that same group at 8th grade, some will run...most will say frick that. Because running has been seen as punishment.

Again, not my hardcore beliefs, just information that is being studied and passed down the pipeline in higher education.

Right for an individual that's one way and sometimes used. There's tons of sketchy coaches who really aren't in it for the good life lessons that sports teach. So they're not sitting studs and all stars. Or if it's a team, can't sit the whole team...run em! U can punish an entire team at once and make it super easy for you. Indian trains, the entire team can run it. Bleachers. Poles in baseball. It's so easy to do.

Yea, as a coach, we still taught competitive sports. We taught rules, rewarded sportsmanship, we taught the history of the sport, variations of the sport and skills.

We taught the 3 basic PE sports but also threw in ultimate frisbee (it was disturbing seeing how many couldn't throw one), badminton, golf, track and field, kickball, hockey, soccer, volleyball, and other agility based games.

I fricking hate baseball. I hated playing softball in PE. It's all we did. That's it unless it rained, then we walked the gym or shot free throws. That's the premises of PE in most schools.

When we would give the kids stations or choices on sports to play after they were taught, it was almost 100% participation.

My head coach in high school was in the weight room all day.

He'd record lifts, sit in his chair, and walk to the door when the class was over. He also did this thing with his feet while he was in the chair where he'd prop them up on the desk he used to record lifts.


Pretty badass.